Legal firearms owners in Canada are vetted on a daily basis through the CPIC system;

The Prime Minister is using the emotion of the tragedy in Nova Scotia to impose this confiscation regime even though all of the firearms the murderer used were illegally obtained;

The list of firearms to be confiscated is arbitrary and not based on functionality;

“Assault rifles”, or fully automatic firearms, have been banned in Canada since 1977;

Criminals who have illegally obtained firearms will not be impacted by this confiscation regime; and

The federal government is abandoning evidenced-based decision making as it relates to preventing firearm violence.

We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada, call upon the Prime Minister to immediately scrap his government’s May 1, 2020, Order in Council decision related to confiscating legally owned firearms and instead pass legislation that will target criminals, stop the smuggling of firearms into Canada, go after those who illegally acquire firearms, and apologize to legal firearms owners in Canada.